Construction of feature for distance measurement

[cappleby1]

Me again,  I am having a issue when trying to measure a distance.  I have one side of this part locked to a zero in my coordinate system (same as print) and I would like to measure a distance which is basically from the zero plane on one side to the location where a radius meets a plane on the other side.  The plane is going off at an angle and the location meets a cylinder feature.  The one side is a plane and is locked to my coordinate system in Z so I don't have to worry about that side but I have not been able to find a method that will allow this extraction.  Does anyone out there have any idea how to solve this problem?  This would seem to be a common measurement and would be surprised if I can construct a vector here.  Here is a pic of the model in Polyworks 2014:

[cappleby1]

I had to created vectors from the planes then create points where the vectors intersect the cylinder.  It would be nice just to create a line where a plane hits a cylinder (like a slice of pie). 

**UPDATE

I sent this over to Polyworks and have been working with them. I got the following respone:

Hi Chris,

Looks like what you've done there is the best option for now.  I have put in your feature request.  I hope Polyworks gets it because that is a bit of a chore.


Looks like well be waiting for a another new feature hope we get this one soon

[jrayself]

Nice workaround!